Dr. Marina Holgado Madruga studied Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Salamanca, where she defended her doctoral thesis in 1992. She then moved as a postdoctoral fellow to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and later to Stanford University as a Scientific Instructor. She is currently a Full Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine since 2011. She has participated in different national and international research projects on cancer and teaches in different degrees and masters of the University of Salamanca, being the coordinator of the Master of the European alliance Ec2U: "Well-being and healthy aging throughout life".